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Friendly Greetings! Down on the Farm life is full of adventures, stories, smiles, and laughter and the barnyard is full of silly and cute critters. Our creative works are inspired by Nature and Nature’s Curiosities and a lot of imagination as well as our farming family history.

This illustration of Humpback Whales breaching under the Aurora Borealis filled sky portrays a cow and calf jumping out of the water as other whales in the distance swim, breach, or even just peek out of the water: a dance of the great mammals under a starlit sky glowing with Auroras.

This picture was painted in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom Cintiq 13HD and its Pro Pen with a variety of brush; my own, standard Photoshop brushes, and water brushes created by Aaron Blaise, a wonderful artist and art guide, and can be found on his site over at http://creatureartteacher.com/

This piece was created for and on World Whale Day 2019 (Saturday, February 16th) and is part of the Starlight Safari Collection, a series of illustrations created on certain days of the year that honor and raise awareness for animals; such as Whale Day. The World Wildlife Days Challenge I (Lisa) set myself is to paint the featured creatures on the day and try to release a video of the painting process as well. For 2018’s Whale Day Narwhals were featured. 2019 features Humpback Whales, but similar aurora colors were chosen so maybe the same Geomagnetic Storm passes over both kinds of whales.

If you enjoy watching painting process videos (we sure do) the video is on our new YouTube art channel:

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